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Rocco Passionino
Visual Effects Supervisor/Creative
Director
(310)
838-0770.office, (310) 497-7091.cell, rpassionino@yahoo.com
Zoic Studios,
Culver City, CA 90232 - July 2002 to Present
VFX Supervisor –
Overseeing the design and look for the visual effect production and
post-production work. Includes onset supervision, 2nd Unit shooting and 2D
and 3D aspects for shows.
Hot
Tub Time Machine 2 (MGM): Production On-set Visual Effects
Supervisor
Killing Kennedy (National
Geographic): Production On-set Visual Effects Supervisor
You’re Not You (Daryl
Prince Productions): Production On-set Visual Effects Supervisor
Grown Ups 2 (Sony): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Backmask (Voltage Pictures): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Battle Of The Year (Screen Gems): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (Summit):
Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor
The Bling Ring (FilmNation): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
The Gangster Squad (Warner
Brothers): Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor
That’s My Boy (Columbia
Pictures): Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor
Think Like A Man (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Premium Rush (Sony Pictures): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Thirty Minutes Or Less (Sony
Pictures): Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor
Friends With Benefits (Sony
Pictures): Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor
Jumping The Broom (TriStar
Pictures): Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor
Just Go With It (Sony Pictures): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
How Do You Know (Columbia
Pictures): Production/Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor
Country Strong (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Burlesque (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Red (Summit/Universal): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Devil (Universal): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Limitless (Relativity): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Priest (Screen Gems): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Straw Dogs (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
The Roommate (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
The Karate Kid (Columbia Pictures):
Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor
Easy A (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Mardi Gras: Spring Break (Screen
Gems): Production/Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor
Death At A Funeral (Screen Gems):
Production/Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor
Takers (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
The Stepfather (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Zombieland (Columbia Pictures): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Armored (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Obsessed (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Fired Up! (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Quarantined (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Lakeview Terrace (Overbrook): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
First Sunday (Screen Gems): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Mirrors (New Regency): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Step Brothers (Sony): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
This Christmas (Screen Gems): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Pineapple Express (Screen Gems): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Prom Night (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Stomp the Yard (Screen Gems): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Vacancy (Screen Gems): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Deuce Bigalow 2 (Sony): Production/Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor – 96 shots
The Day After Tomorrow (20th
Century Fox): Vendor Visual Effects Supervisor – 47 shots
Spiderman 2 (Sony): Vendor
Visual Effects Supervisor – 14 shots
Visual
Effects Supervisor for episodic television shows: Hemlock Grove
(Netflix), Resurrection (ABC), The Saint
(MPCA/Silver Screen), Castle (ABC), Life Unexpected
(CW), Dollhouse (Fox), Prison Break (Fox), Criminal
Minds (CBS/Paramount), Shark (CBS/Imagine), Viva
Laughlin (CBS/BBC), Standoff(FOX), Threshold(Paramount/CBS),
Point Pleasant (Fox), Miracles (ABC/Touchstone), Angel
(WB/20th Century Fox).
Radium, Santa
Monica, CA 90404 – December 2001 to June 2002
Oversaw both the 2D and 3D aspects of the pilot. The work garnered a 2003
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Television
Series.
Firefly:
Serenity (Pilot) (20th Century Fox): Digital Effects Supervisor
VisionArt,
Santa Monica, CA 90404 - June 1999 to October 2001
Supervisor work consisted of client interaction, art direction, animation
direction, team assignments, creating schedules, and deadlines. Artist work
consisted of FX animation (particle work-debris, rain, mist, smoke, fire,
explosions), TD, shader writing, color and lighting, procedural modeling and
compositing of the shots. The work garnered a 2003 Primetime Emmy Nomination
for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Miniseries, Movie or Special..
Point
of Origin (HBO Films): Digital Effects Supervisor - 4 shots, 12
artists
To End All Wars (Lions Gate
Films): Digital Effects Supervisor - 18 shots, 22 artists
Rollerball (MGM/UA): Digital
Effects Supervisor - 31 shots, 19 artists
Dr. Dolittle 2 (20th Century
Fox): Digital Effects Supervisor - 62 shots, 42 artists
Swordfish (WB): Digital Effects
Supervisor - 22 shots, 18 artists
Spy Kids (Dimension Films):
Digital Effects Supervisor - 16 shots, 12 artists
The Painting (Santa Monica
Pictures): Visual Effects Supervisor – 28 shots, 14 artists
Dungeons & Dragons (WB): CG
Supervisor - 68 shots, 35 artists
Little Nicky (New Line): Digital
Effects Supervisor - 95 shots, 40 artists
Digital Artist on Anna & The King, House
On Haunted Hill, The Omega Code and LA Times Motion Capture
Centropolis
Effects, Culver City, CA, 90232 - November 1997-June 1999
Lead work consisted of managing priorities of effects work load for the
entire team. Artist work consisted of FX animation(particle work-debris,
rain, mist, smoke, fire, explosions), TD, shader writing, color and lighting,
procedural modeling and compositing of the shots.
End
of Days (Universal Pictures): Digital Artist
Thirteenth Floor (Columbia
Pictures): Digital Artist
Godzilla (Sony): Digital Artist -
FX Lead
Digital Artist on The Faculty, Subaru
AWD, Deterrence and Storm of the Century
Digital Domain,
Venice, CA 90291 - November 1994-November 1997
Artist
work consisted of FX animation (particle work-debris, rain, mist, smoke,
fire, explosions), TD, shader writing, color and lighting, procedural
modeling and compositing of the shots.
Titanic
(Paramount/20th Century Fox): Digital Artist, Character Integration Lead
The Fifth Element (Columbia
Pictures): Digital Artist
General Cinemas: Digital Artist
Terminator 2: 3D (Universal
Studios): Digital Artist: Mini-Hunter/Killer Team
Digital Artist for Apollo 13, Interview
with a Vampire and Strange Days.
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